Between May 25th and June 6th, Europe will celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings.   Already aircraft are making their way to North Weald to kick off the celebrations with practice parachute drops on the 25th and 26th of May. They will the go to Duxford for the 1st and 2nd of June, culminating in the crossing of the English Channel on the 2nd of June to land at Cherbourg.   The fleet will then attend various events in Normandy from Cherbourg, between the 3rd and the 9th of June.   An early arrival at Duxford from Berlin, to where it will return for Berlin 75 celebrations, is the ex Aigle Azur Dakota, F-GEFX. Claude Marx is Captain with Crassus Terrani as co-pilot.   The Ailes Veterans C-47, with Lottie Vincent and Erasmus Fuller at the controls, is stuck at Saint Yan with electrical problems. However, a campus of the Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile is located in Saint Yan, so they should be on their way shortly.   The ex Pan World Airways DC-3, with Joseph King as PIC and Wally Cassell in the right hand seat, is in at Coventry with an engine problem. Coventry was the base for the Air Atlantique Dakota fleet, so again they should be back in the air soon.   The Sirrus Aviation Dakota, KG836, is at Amiens having delivered some Veterans on their way to the World War One Memorial at Thiepval. With Sean Beckett as PIC, and myself in the right hand seat, we should be back in the UK in lots of time for the celebrations.

Hi gang. Question I wanted to float to the group. I'm very particular about my sound files. I've built unique ones for each aircraft. I have a great one for P&W 757s. BUT, I notice on the TDS 757, the "groan" as it were, i.e. the sound it makes when they engine is full power and you're sitting in front of the engine, takes an unrealistic amount of time to kick in. I used the same sound set in other plane models and it took half as long. So I did a study: I used a panel that shows engine rpms. And I noticed it took the TDS 757 25 seconds to hit 90 rpms, it took another 757 model only about 13. So my question is, what in the aircraft config can u adjust how quickly the plane gets to higher rpms. The jet_scalar is set to 1.2 on both models. So I'm wondering is it's another setting. This is only important cause the quicker I get to the higher rpms the more realistic the sound set. I will post similar question on TDS facebook but was curious as to whether any of my partners here had any insight. 

Yes, I have the "Battle of Britain Spitfire" and it's very easy to bend the prop.  It's much closer to the deck than any RW single engine fixed wing's prop that I ever flew.

Hello fellow simmers ! I recently installed FS2000pro on a Win98/Pentium3 machine and am surprised by the excellent graphics compared to FS98 and high frame rate. So far I've installed the German Airports 1-3 for FS2000 as well as a few Fs98 sceneries for Berlins new Berlin-Brandenburg Airport, Zurich and some others, wich work very well in FS2000. Unfortunately, I cannot find a scenery for Berlin-Tempelhof, wether freeware or payware, for FS2000. Does anybody know if there's a good scenery for this airport in FS2000 available ? Does anyone know if there's a German Airports 4 for FS2000, wich contains Tempelhof ? Any help is appreciated...   Kind Regards, Hakan  

Nope, I'm still getting it.

Queenstown (NZQN) to Milford Sound (NZMF). FS2004. Aerosoft DHC-2 Beaver. Climbed to the top at 6,500', then dropped down bush pilot style to the runway... sort of. Took me about 35 min. @ 95 kts.             Nice Challenge! More, please!

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Queenstown (NZQN) to Milford Sound (NZMF)   For this challenge I decided to use a Spitfire IA in MSFS 2020.   Full disclosure, on my first landing attempt I bent the prop, but here is the successful flight.   Spitfire cockpit view at Queensland.   Takeoff on Runway 23.   Climbing out.   Continuing to climb out.  Decided on a direct route so lots of altitude to gain on climb out.  Not very hospitable terrain if my Merlin has a problem.   On the way, getting up near 10,000 ft.   About half way there now.   Some high mountains and lakes here.  One more major ridgeline left to cross.   Airport ahead at the far end of the valley.   Flaps and gear deployed.   Slowing down on approach.  Under 100 kts.   Down to 70 kts and getting close.   My original intention was to take a few more pictures during the landing, but getting down in one piece took priority!  🙂   Full stop landing accomplished.   This view shows how much runway I needed for the landing.   Parked at Milford Sound (NZMF) near a yellow Cessna.   Thanks for a fun challenge.  🙂  

Easy to do when you can see the mountains. NZQN can get a little cloudy.     Can highly recommend a visit if you like mountains and outdoor adventures. They also filmed parts of the Lord of the Rings movies in the area.  

Nights in the Midwest As always [CLICK THE PIC] for the larger picture version. Hopefully, you enjoyed these images, your commentary is always appreciated...Darryl

C208 in MSFS2020. Not a problem if you follow the valley from the south. Stopped in time to make the runway exit. Beautiful scenery.

Apparently this is a popular tourist area, I wonder if there's an extra fee for this flight as a thrill ride.  I see no way of approaching NZMF that wouldn't have a major "pucker factor" in RL.   Sitting at NZQN there's no indication of what you're in for.    Climbing out isn't difficult, just stay between the mountains   GPS is your friend   Follow the valley ...unless you fancy climbing to 10k ft for a forty mile run     Somewhat inhospitable surroundings   Halfway there   Still following the valleys   Now it's either continue to the ocean and double back or ...over the mountains, I'm about 8200ft here         Almost there, NZMF is up that inlet     8 miles to go (paused for the screenshot, from the cockpit those walls seem about five feet away)     Threading the needle, 70kts, half flaps     There it is, 60kt, full flaps, and puckered so that half the seat cushion has disappeared     Down, once on the ground she'll stop on a dime ...thankfully   An alternate approach might be through the pass in the mountains, on the left, which somewhat line up with the runway;  but it would be completely blind til on this side, when suddenly there's the runway and a steep descent to it.     53 minutes for 40 miles   An interesting flight.    But now I've spilled the beans.

Oh..... I just solved it ! I went into General Options / Data, and found Online functionality was off ! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

The soviets got one big thing right- combined arms units that roll small mech infantry, armor, artillery, and attack aviation units under one combined arms brigade. Didn't help in Afghanistan but it was a fantastic concept for conventional warfare that recognized how each individual combat arm relies on the others.

It must be on ? I can see other players flying around me.